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'''Shirley Sherrod''' was [[United States Department of Agriculture]]'s director of rural development in [[Georgia]] until July 20, 2010 when the Obama [[White House]] directed Secretary of Agriculture, [[Tom Vilsack]], to have her fired. According to Sharrod, the USDA called her while she was driving, told her to pull over to the side of the road and resign using her Blackberry.
'''Shirley Sherrod''' was [[United States Department of Agriculture]]'s director of rural development in [[Georgia]] until July 20, 2010 when the Obama [[White House]] directed Secretary of Agriculture, [[Tom Vilsack]], to have her fired. According to Sharrod, the USDA called her while she was driving, told her to pull over to the side of the road and resign using her Blackberry.
Sharrod
The White House wanted to inject race into the 2010 mid-term election campaign and now they've done it.
Since 1909 the NAACP has been, according to its website, "the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization." I don't disagree with that assessment.
In the clip, Ms. Sherrod appeared to be regaling the audience - a local NAACP chapter - with a story about how she didn't do her best to help a White farmer because she felt he thought he was "superior" to her. In her story she said she "didn't give him the full force of what I could do" because "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland and here I was faced
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